Volume 9 | Issue 1 |

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2020 has not been just any year. Encountering COVID-19 Pandemic, it has opened doors for a no. Of opportunities and put the rest through trying times. However, one sector which emerged as a clear new normal is Digital payment industry. People use these online mode of payments from the convenience of their homes through online channels like mobile banking, internet banking, cards, digital wallets etc. and thus can avoid crowded places and can contribute more towards cashless economy. A significant shift in the consumer behaviour with respect to the e-payments can be seen all over. Digital wallets and UPI�s are the most trending payment methods dominating over cash. The paper is an attempt to understand the most preferred payment mode of consumers while online shopping during pandemic also, it highlights the most favoured online payment option on the basis of recorded responses. Questionnaire was the tool used to collect the primary data from a total of 110 respondents belonging to Bhopal cit of Madhya Pradesh. The data was analysed to find out the pre stated objectives.

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E-payments, Digital wallets, UPI�s, Cashless payments

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The history and development of ceramic art and industry is traced by an enquirer since remote antiquity till recent times. The development of ceramic art and industry is closely intertwined with the socio-cultural aspects of life led by those who devoted themselves throughout to the ceramics popularly known as potters, Kumor or Kumbhakaras. The ethno-archaeological study centering round the ceramics is spread over a vast territorial jurisdiction of this country. But at present I have concentrated only on the district of Purba Bardhaman. The areas surveyed by me in this district include rural, semi-urban, urban areas inhabited by a large number of potters� families, those who are divided among castes and sub-castes with their characteristic socio-cultural orientation. This study is an attempt to make an in depth study of the socio-cultural cum economic aspects of the ceramic artists� inhabiting in some parts of Purba Bardhaman District. The potters of these areas are found to follow their age-old or traditional techniques with some modern ones. My contention may be verified by the actual survey I have made in the village Shalun, in this district. The district of Purba Bardhaman is geographically divided by river Damodar from the district of Bankura. On the southern part of the district we find a number of blocks. Khandogosh is one of such blocks that have a number of potters� dominated villages. On the northern part of this block we see a small village Salun. Salun is a Hindu dominated village with multi caste settlements grown in the village. Beside the large concentration of potters, we find here different Hindu caste groups such as Brahmin, Kayastha, Goala, Kamar, Bene, Bagdi, Bouri etc. Census 2001 confirms us that it encompasses an area of 280.0 hectares of land with a big population of 3060, of which 1552 are male and 1508 are female. This large section of people live in 7 localities divided into 644 households. This report enumerates that the village has a sizeable schedule caste population of 1486 and with 192 schedule tribe people.1 Salun is connected with Bardhaman town and with Bankura by a pacca road. The village has two Primary schools, one I.C.D.S. centre, one Adult Literacy Centre, one Sub- health Centre etc. The village stands nearer to river Damodar as well as to river Shali. So the village is enriched by alluvial soil of Damodar basin. The land of this area is much fertile for growing crops. The villagers have been enjoying wide spread irrigation facilities. A fair number of villagers directly or indirectly depend on agriculture.2 Census 2001 records that, the total numbers of workers in the village is 1346 among which 172 are cultivators and 445 are agricultural labourers. The report also reveals that the number of household workers in the village is 92. Salun is well known in the district as a potters� village. The chief cottage industry in the village is pottery though the village has developed some brick industry as well.3

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Salun: A potters� village; Sociology of Pottery Making Culture in a Village in the District of Purba Bardhaman

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Raga system is considered as the outstanding feature of Indian music. Each raga or scale has its own entity and well defined characteristics. Ragas are the solid music facts and every raga includes a separate aesthetic form. Like subtle srutis of music, ragas are may be perceived by a trained ear. The beauties underlying a raga are very subtle and delicate. Ragas reveal themselves through the Kalpita sangita and extemporised music. The individuality of a raga covers many aspects like its Jiva svaras, Nyasa svaras, Rakti prayogas, Amsa svaras, Vakra prayogas etc. It consists, a series of notes which bear a particular relationship to the tonic note or Adhara Shadja. In line with ancient treatises of Indian music, Raga means a selected combination of svaras or notes which supplies pleasure to the listeners mind. Thus different combinations of notes will bring different ragas. The ascending and descending orders (Arohana and Avarohana) constitute the preliminary description of a raga. Ragas are classified into Janaka or parent ragas and Janya or derivative ragas. Janya raga may be a raga, which is alleged to be derived from a Melakarta or Janaka raga. Janya ragas are classified again into Varja ragas, Vakra ragas, Upanga ragas, Bhashanga ragas etc. During this article, the characteristic features of Mohanam as a janya raga, are portrayed and supported by various elements

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Carnatic, Janya raga, Kriti, Melakarta, Mohanam, Music, Notes, Pentatonic, Scale, Svara

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Stunting is a child’s height growth which is not appropriate for their age. The prevalence of stunting in Talaud Islands is 37.5%. This study aims to determine the factors related to stunting in toddlers in Talaud Islands. This study is a cross sectional study to 163 toddlers aged 6-24 months with purposive sampling technique.The results showed that 56.4% of mothers in low education. 85.3% of mothers were married at ?18 years old and 69.9% gave birth at 20-35 years old. The mother’s height was 66.9% in the normal category. Toddlers with normal birth weight were 95.1%. Toddlers who received early initiation of breastfeeding were 53.4%. Toddlers who have no exclusive breastfeeding were 58.9%. Toddlers who received inappropriate complementary breastfeeding were 55.2%. Toddlers with normal nutritional status category were 52.8%, toddlers with stunting category were 47.2%, short toddlers were 27.6%, very short toddlers were 19.6%. The results of statistical tests using chi square showed that there was correlation between education of mothers (p= 0.018), age at give birth (p= 0.045), height of mothers (p= 0.030) and nutritional status of toddlers and stuning toddlers in Talaud Islands. These factors shows that there is correlation between weight at birth (p= 0.019), BMI (p= 0.000), exclusive breastfeeding (p= 0.002), complementary breastfeeding (p= 0.000) with stunting toddlers in Talaud Islands. The society participation is needed, especially mother of toddler in integrated service post and optimal cross-sectoral in order to the prevention and management of stunting in Talaud Islands.

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Stunting, Mother, Toddler

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India and Russia shared decades of close bond at the highest levels during the Soviet era. Indeed, as early as 1992, India and Russia had negotiated arms agreements worth $650 million. A particularly high point since then has been the evolution from �a purely buyer-seller relationship to joint research, design development and production of state-of-the-art military platforms,� a successful example of it being Brahmos missile. from �a purely buyer-seller relationship to joint research, design development and production of state-of-the-art military platforms,� With an eye on the future, several pacts on cooperation in energy, power, shipbuilding, space and smart cities were signed. Modi and Putin also witnessed the foundation laying ceremony of Units 3 and 4 of Kudankulam nuclear plan, giving a major boost to defence equipment�s, India and Russia signed pacts on purchase of four naval frigates and air defence systems along with a pact for joint production of 200 Kamov 226T helicopters apart from that, more than 70 years of the diplomatic relations between the two countries have been marked by a high degree of convergence on various bilateral and global matters . Both India and Russia are part of non-Western organisations such as SCO and BRICS which has gained geopolitical significance in recent years. Both the country along with other member states, strive towards the establishment of a bloc free geopolitical architecture. the trade relationship clearly needed revamp with bilateral trade having reached a mere $9.51 billion in 2014 which was nowhere near the goal of $20 billion by 2015. The Druzbha-Dosti 2014 joint statement then set the target of attaining the trade level of $30 billion by 2025. the two countries to overcome the old romanticism of the Indo-Soviet ties and engage at a pragmatic level. Today there is no denying the mutual trust and friendship that exists between the two countries.

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Bilateral, Trade, Vivify, Treaty, diplomatic, Friendship, Defense

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The research focuses on the risk and return parameter for five different types of mutual funds in India. Here in this paper we had included sharpe ratio with the help of the returns, standard deviation and risk free returns and also treynor ratio with the help of the returns, Beta, standard deviation and risk free return with the help of the NAVs.

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Sharpe, Treynor, Mutual fund

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Abstract: Posthumanism takes a critical stance towards humanism and it urges humans to respect and respond to non-human worlds and to reject the essentialist and hierarchical divisions between culture and nature. The aim of my article is to explore how the dogs in Nabarun Bhattacharya�s Lubdhak (2006) take part in the post-humanist logos and interrogate the exploitation of animals. The novel opens a new discourse regarding animal life and rights and situates the animals at the centre of the text. The essay aims at recognizing the power of animals to interrupt, surprise, and reconstitute human commonality. Its focus is on how the street dogs� organization and their discourse on Human (its development, rationalism, invention, use and misuse of scientific knowledge) challenge and interrupt anthropocentrism. It will be argued how far the gaze of the animal breaks the hold of reason�s plan by admitting an �alterity� to reason within the temporal continuum.

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Keywords: Nabarun Bhattacharya; post-anthropocentric subject; animal gaze; empathy; alterity.

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We are found the 350,000 species of plants which are found in earth, these plant are produce great medicinal properties. The plant of Ginger is also known as Gingerin, Rhizoma zingiberis, Zingibere and Ginger Officinale which is belong from the family of Zingiberaceae. The ginger rhizome is yellowish green colored. The ginger plant is very useful across the world-wide and it can be cultivated in dry and nutritional condition. The plant is consitituent with following chemical consitituents which are play a vital role in medicinal field. It is used to treatment and prevention of various diseases such as cough, morning sickness, motion sickness, vomiting after surgery, respiratory problems and bronchitis.

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Introduction, Biological source, Geographical source, Botanical classification, Vascular name, Organoleptic property, Microscopic property, Cultivation, Chemical consitituents, Pharmaceutical uses

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An attempt is made to study the Awareness, Use and Usefulness of Electronic Information Resources among the Scientifc staff of ICAR Institutions in South India. Survey method and a questionnaire tool was used and results indicated that all the respondents of scientific staff used EIRs in the department followed by used EIRs in library. Among all the EIRs, internet , websites and ETDs are used by all the scientific respondents as the rate 9of 100percent. All scientific respondents of the opinion that internet and ETDs are 100 percent useful to their writing research papers and on going research work/project.

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Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), Electronic Information Resources (EIRs), Awareness, Use, Usefulness, Electronic Thesis and Dissertations (ETDs).

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Authoritarian blindness is a perennial problem, especially in large countries like China with centralized, top-down administration. Indeed, Xi would not even be the first Chinese ruler to fall victim to the totality of his own power. On August 4, 1958, buoyed by reports pouring in from around the country of record grain, rice, and peanut production, an exuberant Chairman Mao Zedong wondered how to get rid of the excess, and advised people to eat �five meals a day.� Many did, gorging themselves in the new regime canteens and even dumping massive amounts of �leftovers� down gutters and toilets. Export agreements were made to send tons of food abroad in return for machinery or currency. Mao didn�t know famine was at hand, because he had set up a system that ensured he would hear lies. Smart rulers have tried to create workarounds to avoid this authoritarian dilemma. Dynastic China, for example, had institutionalized mechanisms to petition the emperor: a right that was theoretically granted to everyone, including the lowest farmers and the poorest city dwellers. This system was intended to check corruption in provinces and uncover problems, but in practice, it was limited in many ways, filtered through courtiers to a single emperor, who could listen to only so many in a day. Many rulers also cultivated their own independent sources of information in far-flung provinces. Thanks to technology, there is a much more robust option for authoritarians in the 21st century: big-data analytics in a digital public sphere. The public sphere in China during those years wasn�t a free-for-all, to be sure. One couldn�t call for collective action or for deposing the central government. But social media gave citizens a voice and a way to make an impact, and it served as an early-warning system for party leaders Authorities sometimes went as far as to pledge, in advance, to abide by the decisions of these bodies. For many years, such experiments flourished all over China and, combined with the digital public sphere, led scholars to wonder whether the �deliberative turn� in the country�s otherwise authoritarian state was not a means of weakening authoritarianism, but of making it more sustainable. An earlier hint that Xi�s China was falling into authoritarian blindness came during the on-going Hong Kong protests. The demonstrations had started over a minor demand�the withdrawal of an extradition bill of little strategic importance to Beijing. Protest is the traditional way that Hong Kongers, who do not have full voting rights, express discontent. But this time the Beijing insiders miscalculated. They genuinely believed that the real cause for the Hong Kong unrest was the high rents on the densely populated island, and also thought that the people did not support the protesters. Authoritarian blindness had turned an easily solvable problem into a bigger, durable crisis that exacted a much heavier political toll, a pattern that would repeat itself after a mysterious strain of pneumonia emerged in a Wuhan seafood market. In early December 2019, a strange cluster of patients from a local seafood market, which also sold wildlife for consumption, started showing up in Wuhan hospitals. These initial patients developed a fever and pneumonia that did not seem to be caused by any known viruses. Given the SARS experience of 2003, local doctors were quickly alarmed. With any such novel virus, medical providers are keen to know how it spreads: If the virus is unable to spread from human to human, it�s a tragedy, but a local one, and for only a few people. If it can sustainably spread from human to human, as was the case with SARS, it could turn into a global pandemic, with potentially massive numbers of victims. Given exponential growth dynamics of infectious diseases, containing an epidemic is straightforward early on, but nearly impossible once a disease spreads among a population. So it�s maximally important to identify and quarantine candidate cases as early as possible, and that means leadership must have access to accurate information. Before the month of December was out, the hospitals in Wuhan knew that the corona virus was spreading among humans. Medical workers who had treated the sick but never visited the seafood market were falling ill. On December 30, a group of doctors attempted to alert the public, saying that seven patients were in isolation due to a SARS-like disease. On the same day, an official document admitting both a link to the seafood market and a new disease was leaked online. On December 31, 2019, facing swirling rumours, the Wuhan government made its first official announcement, confirming 27 cases but, crucially, denying human-to-human transmission. Teams in hazmat suits were finally sent to close down the seafood market, though without explaining much to the befuddled, scared vendors. Things went on in this suspended state for another 10 days, while the virus kept spreading. Incredibly, on January 19, just one day after the death of yet another doctor who had become infected, officials from across the populous Hubei province held a 40,000-family outdoor banquet in Wuhan, its capital, as part of the official celebrations for China�s Lunar New Year. The dam broke on January 20�just three days before Wuhan would initiate a draconian lockdown that blocked millions of people from leaving. On that day, the respected SARS scientist Zhong Nanshan went on national television, confirming the new virus and human-to-human transmission. That same day, Xi Jinping gave his first public speech about the corona-virus, after he returned from an overseas trip to Myanmar. (1)

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Corona-Virus reveals authoritarianisms fatal flaw

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